New Horizons (book)

New Horizons

Dust-jacket illustration by Stephen E. Fabian for New Horizons
Author	edited by August Derleth
Cover artist	Stephen E. Fabian
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction short stories
Publisher	Arkham House
Publication date	1998 (1999)
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	xv, 299 pp
ISBN	0-87054-174-9
OCLC	40230833
Dewey Decimal	813/.0876208 21
LC Class	PS648.S3 N427 1998

New Horizons is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by August Derleth (d. 1971). It was released posthumously by the specialty house publisher Arkham House in an hardcover edition of 2,917 copies. While the title page gives the date of publication as 1998, the book was not actually printed and released until 1999. The is an anthology that Derleth had planned in the early 1960s, but never published.

Contents

New Horizons contains the following stories:

1. "Introduction", by Joseph Wrzos
2. Part I: Time Travel Before Tachyons
   • "The Runaway Skyscraper", by Murray Leinster
   • "A Dream of Armageddon", by H.G. Wells
   • "Willie", by Frank Belknap Long
   • "The Pureblind Prophet", by David H. Keller and Paul Spencer
3. Part II: Technological Triumphs: The Light Side
   • "The Feline Light and Power Company", by Jacque Morgan
   • "Solander's Radio Tomb", by Ellis Parker Butler
   • "The Perambulating Home", by Henry Hugh Simmons
4. Part III: Global Catastrophe: Atlantean
   • "Countries in the Sea", by August Derleth and Mark Schorer
5. Part IV: Amazing Discoveries: The Flip Side
   • "The Ultra-Elixir of Youth", by A. Hyatt Verrill
   • "The Book of Worlds", by Miles J. Breuer
   • "The Truth About the Psycho-tector", by Stanton A. Coblentz
6. Part V: Menace from Above: Local, Interstellar
   • "Raiders of the Universes", by Donald Wandrei
   • "The Planet Entity", by E.M. Johnston and Clark Ashton Smith
7. Appendix: August Derleth's Science Fiction Anthologies

References

• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1999). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998, Supplement 7. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 4.
• Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 173. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
• Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 143–144. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.